Semi-Colons & John Grisham

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 2113

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> 
wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, coriolan at w... wrote:
> > > I'm sure we all know folks who - without having read any of the 
> > > books - dismiss the Harry Potter series as children books. (A 
> > Muggles 
> > > co-worker told me that she "knew" that Harry Potter was written 
> at 
> > a 
> > > first-grade level so American children can read the story 
without 
> > > help). Meanwhile, my adult friends demonstrate their *gravitas* 
> by 
> > > reading the ouevre of John Grisham, Patricia Cornwall and Tom 
> > Clancy.
> > > 
> > 
> > I know no one who reads John Grisham, Patricia Cornwall or Tom 
> > Clancy...it was somewhat exciting for me to be au courant with 
> > popular culture through reading HP...
> > 
> > my friends are reading Gecko Tails and Blanche Cook's bio of 
> Eleanor 
> > Roosevelt (Vol II).......
> 
> Susan, I dont mean to offend, but I find the above remark uncalled 
> for.  The person you responded to was expressing anger at people 
who 
> put down HP books for their supposed questionable literary merit 
when 
> their reading tastes consist of books with clearly questionable 
> literary merit.  This, IMHO, is reasonable - those people are being 
> hypocritical.  Your comment, however, was a somewhat snobby put-
down 
> of all people (whether hypocrits or not) who happen to like to read 
> books with clearly questionable literary merit.  This is unfair; 
> people who read Grisham, etc. arent inferior to your friends who 
read 
> biographies. Sorry to go off on a rant here, but I hate snobbery, 
and 
> yes I sometimes read books with clearly questionable literary 
merit, 
> and other times I even read biographies.
> 
> -- Joywitch

Joy, you misread my comments. I was just describing my life, and that
it was quite nice to be among the majority for a change. Sorry that I 
don't know anyone who reads Grisham, etc. I'm sure I read stuff with 
questionable literary merit, but I don't really pay attention to what 
people think has merit? Except about Tolkien and HP, because people
seem determined to prove that it's not literature. 

Susan